Cockpit

The cockpit is the home page of the application. Structured as a dashboard it
provides a number of widgets that a planner uses in his daily planning
activities. It is an efficient starting point for the common activities.

The cockpit is configurable to meet the requirements and taste of your
implementation. Customized widgets are also easy develop. In the
Community Edition all users will see the same dashboard. In the
Enterprise Edition every user gets his own dashboard, which he can
customize interactively.

Available widgets

The following widgets are currently available:

Purchase orders

Provides a high level overview of the open purchase orders, and new
orders that will need to be created soon.

Purchase queue

Displays a list of new purchase orders that should be placed on your
suppliers.

Distribution orders

Provides a high level overview of the open distribution orders, and new
orders that will need to be created soon.

Distribution queue

Displays a list of new distribution orders that should be placed.

Manufacturing orders

Provides a high level overview of the open manufacturing orders, and new
orders that will need to be created soon.

Resource queue

This is the list of operations that are about to be started on each
resource.

Shipping queue

Displays a list of customer orders that are about to be shipped.

Welcome widget

A welcome text to give first-time users some guidance to get started
with the application.

News

This widget picks up the latest news topics from frepple.com.

Recent actions

Shows your most recent editing actions.

Generate plan

Regenerates a constrained plan.

Alerts

Shows a summary of the exceptions and problem areas.

Late orders

Shows the most urgent orders that are planned late.

Short orders

Shows the most urgent orders that are unplanned or incompletely planned.

Purchase order analysis

Shows the urgency of the existing (locked) purchase orders.

Resource utilization

Displays the resources with the highest utilization.

Delivery performance

This widget shows the percentage of order lines that are planned to be
shipped on time.

Inventory by location

This widget shows the locations carrying the most inventory.

Inventory by item

This widget shows the items which take up the most inventory value.

Inventory analysis

Display an analysis of which item-locations have stockout risks.

Depending on the stockout risk, a red/yellow/green color code is assigned.

The widget shows the number of item-locations in each color code by location.

Forecast error

Display the Symmetric Mean Percentage Error (aka SMAPE). The result is
aggregated across all forecast per bucket, weighted by the forecast quantity.

The widget is only available in the Enterprise Edition and when the
forecasting module is enabled.

Configuring the cockpit

The configuration is different in the Community Edition and the Enterprise
Edition.

In the Community Edition the same dashboard is configured for all users.
Administrators can configure it in the file djangosettings.py.

In the Enterprise Edition every user can easily customize the dashboard
with the widgets that are most relevant for his/her daily work.